70 Railway senior citizens attend health talk on arrhythmia problems
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Oct 30, 2021 04:27
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Chandigarh, October 30, 2021: As many as 70 members of Railway Senior Citizens Welfare Society attended a health talk on arrhythmia (heart rhythm) problems at Govt. Museum and Art Gallery, sector 10 here today.
The workshop was organized by Ayu Health Hospitals which is a hospital chain started in Chandigarh in 2019 by three IIT and IIIT graduates. It is now the largest hospital chain in Chandigarh tri-city region and has branches in Ludhiana and Patiala as well.
Addressing talk, Dr. Devendra Bisht, senior iinterventional cardiologist & electro-physiologist stated that many patients who are visiting our heart clinic are suffering with heart rhythm disturbances. The patients present with symptoms of palpitations, shortness of breath, fainting, chest pain, paralysis and in extreme cases cardiac arrest.
EP study is a test performed to assess one heart's electrical system and is used to diagnose abnormal heartbeats. The test is performed by inserting catheters and then wire electrodes, through blood vessels that enter the heart, which measure electrical activity, he informed.
Once the diagnosis of pathological beats is confirmed it can be cured by RF energy passed by a catheter. The test is performed under local anesthesia and patients can be discharged a few hours after the test, informed Dr Bisht.
Among others, TS Kalra, chairman , KP Singh, president and Harchandan Singh, secretary general of Society were also present during the occasion.
